The Nerdiest Beers You Can Drink

When the geeks of the world converged on San Diego for 2013's Comic-Con International, one local craft brewery thought it was high time to release a beer in collaboration with a geek icon. Enter Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout, the brainchild of Stone Brewing Co. co-founder Greg Koch, Fark.com creator Drew Curtis, and all-around nerd idol Wil Wheaton of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame (for those too hip to be square, Wheaton played Ensign Wesley Crusher). They aged the beer in bourbon barrels for a few fortnights and released it on draft and in bottles just in time for Comic-Con. Before you run out to get your Vulcan hands on w00tstout, here are seven other nerd-inspired beers that make craft-beer geeks giddy with inside-joke humor.

The Defender

Another Comic-Con brew, this one for New York's geektivities, Brooklyn Brewery's The Defender was a limited-run India pale ale engineered by sci-fi fan and brewmaster Garrett Oliver. The label art was designed by DC Comics' Milton Glaser, and the superhero himself, The Defender, came from the hands of Tony Millionaire, a comic-strip artist who got his start at a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, newspaper. And what, exactly, is the Defender's role? "To rescue us from the brewing Megaliths," Brooklyn says.